Foot infection by Clostridium sordellii: Case report and review of 15 cases in France

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1423-1427

  Bouvet, Philippe ^a   Sautereau, Jean ^a   Le Coustumier, Alain ^b   Mory, Francine ^c   Bouchier, Christiane ^a   Popoff, Michel R ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b Centre Hospitalier de Cahors   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; HEMOGLOBIN; METRONIDAZOLE; SIALIDASE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BURN INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII; CONFUSION; FEVER; FOOT DISEASE; FRANCE; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTESTINE CANCER; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MUSCLE NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; VERTIGO; ADULT; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; VERY ELDERLY;

CLOSTRIDIUM SEPTICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASES; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 84925275432     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03414-14     Document Type: Article

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